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Me wanting to rant
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Date: February 17, 2014 07:49PM
Me (regular poster named after character Sally Field won Oscar for) trying to be unsearchable by family trolls.
I moved from Utah to the Southeast 9 years ago. I went from working for a company of 70 people where only 2 of us were non-mormon (one exmo from Norway and me, an apostate), to working for a very large multinational company where no one in our entire building (the executive offices) was mormon and very few even knew a thing about mormons other than the multiple wives.
It's been a haven. It's been my safe space, my mormon-free zone. I can tell people about crazy mormon schit and blow them away. I was so surprised how many people had no clue that mormons couldn't drink coffee (that is heresy around here). I haven't had to feel the mormon judgment, work around any mormon men who think women should be submissive, or even look at them with their haughty power and authority air about them.
So, we have an open position in corporate legal and they brought in 5 attorneys to interview for it. As with most of our attorneys, they are all from the Northeast or Midwest and several worked for large firms in D.C. But the last one who came in had a very Utah-sounding name. I thought "I'm just being paranoid, things like that can't happen to me." But things like that DO happen to me. I looked him up on the Net and he was from Utah originally, even though he went to law school in the East and works in DC area now. So I looked him up on Facebook.
OMG. Talk about Nazi Mormon! Everything and I mean EVERYTHING on his Facebook was Mormon related. And his timeline was shut down. But the pictures that were available were all in front of temples and stuff. His Likes were ALL Mormon related or tea-party ultra conservative political. You know, likes are The Book of Mormon, Glenn Beck, Mitt Romney, Ann Romney, Draft Romney 2016, Now Don't You Wish Romney was President, Romney Family Cookbook, Romney Worship (or whatever), John Bytheway, several temples, Tommy Monson, and all that kind of stuff. Then there were a couple of TV programs that I'd never heard of. I clicked on them and they are series on BYU TV.
So I thought, "Ok, there are 5 people. Two of them are women and that part of our group has no women, so maybe they'll be worried that they're going to get chastised by HR. There's only a 20% chance. So I knew that today they were bringing in their candidate of choice for a second interview. Guess who it was??
WHY??? Why why why does this kind of stuff happen to me? Not that I would have to work directly with him, but he'd be in my group. I don't want any of those people around here. It's MY space. Mine. I was here first. They have no right to invade! Only one Utah native allowed. Damn! But I guess it will be fun to see the look on his face when he finds out that a rabid apostate has been here 9 years and told everyone about the undies and the control freakishness and the secret handshakes and passwords. Yeah, do your "every member a missionary" work here buddy. Dare ya.
OK. Thanks for letting me rant. I can't say anything at the office or I'd be sent to diversity training.